February 05, 2006

The final results are in! Smithers is our winner overall with 43 points, while grum@work and willthrill72 demonstrated almost supernatural futility to take home the Costanza in a tie for last with 16 points. Full write-up and banners/plaques can be found on the LEADERBOARD.

I'd like to thank everyone for playing- I hope you had as much fun playing as I did being Commish this year! I'm also proud to have introduced the first instance of what I hope will be a tradition here at SpoFi, of awarding the Costanza trophy to the worst player in the field each year. Thanks go to gpsm who spent much time designing the final Costanza plaque, and to ProSam who contributed some great designs as well. The mighty dusted also has his classic winning banner design used for yet another SpoFi Fantasy playoffs contest. Our winners should feel proud to hoist these elegant and beautiful trophies in their user profile pages. For those who've won this year, please copy the images in my profile page and host them yourselves- I'm currently hosting those images on my personal computer, so it's not a long-term solution. Alternately, to our much admired pantheon of Admins, I think the SpoFi community would be grateful if you could host the myriad of awards banners here on the site itself. I am still available to write a "Hall Of Fame" .cfm page if you're willing to assist me in getting it implemented. :)

Holy cow, I can't believe that Bill Cowher and I both finally won something!! Can I get a dancing banana?! Thanks for doing all of this Hal...it was lots of fun. And god bless your little gambling heart for introducing the parlay in week 2.

I'd like to say I'm proud of consistent futility (4 points each week), but I ain't. For a brief moment there, it looked like I was going to nail the game exactly. Seattle had the ball in the 4th quarter and trailed 14-10. If they score the touchdown and hang on, my prediction would have been perfect (Seattle, Under, Spread, Kicker). Nevertheless, I intend to "hang" that plaque in my user page as a reminder to myself whenever I think I know what the hell I'm talking about...

I'm so pissed at trying to not win the Costanza when it turned out I was so close! See what "doing your best" does, kids? No one remembers who came in second last! Smithers, congratulations. That was a good run.

Smithers, congratulations. That was a good run. Agreed. As a guy looking up from the other end, I'm impressed. If he reversed his picks on all the options, would he have ended up lower than me and willthrill72?

I'm so pissed at trying to not win the Costanza when it turned out I was so close! You protected the integrity of the game, Chico. That has to be worth something, and if it is, you should auction it on EBay.

Probably not. You can't eat it, or sleep in it, or get sympathy sex from it on the night the restraining order becomes official. But you know, I would totally trade my integrity for one of those cool Pope Hats!

Thanks Hal for a great tourney. Much fun. You all can't believe how incredibly difficult it is to score so abysmally and actually try to make the correct picks. I thought for sure I as going to screw it all up and actually score more than grum. Whew! Now I have an embarassing question (like winning the Costanza isn't embarassing enough!). How do I get my plaque on my profile page? I can't wait to display it for all to see, but I am COMPLETELY computer illiterate and can't for the life of me figure out how to get it there. Thanks again.

MSG carries the hour-long weekly AFL wrapup show, but not at the same time every week. If I got Tivo, that would be easier to follow. Fox Soccer Channel makes following the EPL especially real easy. I feel comfortable enough to go for the Costanza (or the Gromit or the whatever) in that pool next year, maybe.